by Fr. Jim Chern
For some reason the transfiguration of Jesus has always been a difficult moment in the life of Christ for me to wrap my head around and to enter into... In terms of the time-line where…
What are you willing to do for your faith, for what you believe? At the core that’s the question we encounter with this Gospel. It seems such an awkward episode. Because, on the surface, Jesus’…
They just finished dinner. Keep that in mind. This Gospel picks up (somewhat randomly for the way the lectionary normally functions) right where we left off in yesterday (Sunday’s) Gospel reading. It’s like those Television…
What is in our control and what isn’t? That’s always an important question for people in terms of juggling responsibilities and managing their lives and expectations. But even more so, that probably been one of…
There’s a sadness with this familiar story about Jesus attempting to minister at home. We know the details on a historical level - Jesus is not able to accomplish very much because the people’s limited…
I feel bad for St. Martha. Here it is her “feast day” when the Church takes a moment to celebrate her relationship with Christ and we can’t seem to escape the unfortunate or perhaps unfair…
In the advertising world - it’s rare that a marketing campaign would continue for many years, let alone decades. Yet, the tag-line: there’s some things in life that money can’t buy. For everything else there’s…
For the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, one of the options for the readings at Mass [read here] comes from the Old Testament book called the Song of Songs - which we don’t get to hear…
Why is there this viral pandemic? Why are there still all these shut downs - people having to wear masks, people losing their jobs, all the things that are causing our world to feel upside…
One of the beautiful things about Jesus’ parables is that he uses these everyday examples to make his teaching more relatable, more accessible to every body. But I have to confess that this particular parable…